Word: solids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy awarded a $62 million contract to the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for developing the Polaris IRBM, a most promising solid-fuel missile that can be launched from submarines or ships...
...less epileptic kind of minstrelsy have waited for Elvis Presley and the adenoidal art form, rock 'n' roll, to fade. But knowledgeable disk jockeys and trade bulletins offer such purists little hope. In spite of previously noted tremors, last week rock 'n' roll looked solid as Gibraltar, and Elvis-with a new stomp-and-holler hit, Jailhouse Rock (RCA Victor)- was perched right...
...Steady Starlets. Elvis, unworried, continues to live off what most parents would agree is the fat of teenagers' heads. As befits a solid citizen (possible 1957 gross: $1 million), he has lately eschewed fistfights and steady starlets, projected a 15-acre Elvis Presley Youth Foundation in Tupelo, Miss., his birthplace...
...open market to buy their youngsters a coach who could train winners. For a $10,100 salary (the U.S. average for high school coaches: $6,500), plus handsome bonuses and a high-priced side job as a TV football commentator, the Eagles got Charles Hinton Moser Jr., 39, a solid Missourian who played center for the University of Missouri and ripped up opposing lines in the late 1930s. A deep-voiced, ingratiating joiner, Coach Moser shook hands, made friends, and built a team whose drawing power earned the money for a brand-new $50,000 field house. After a winning...
...side was Du Pont (see below), with a solid 7% increase in both sales and net. Earnings were $2.14 a share, v. $1.99 last year. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. raised its volume and net 4%; Eastman Kodak did even better. On a 10.2% increase in sales (from $175.6 million to $193.5 million), it raised profits 14% (from $22.2 million to $25.4 million...